On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Scott Daniel  - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> sounds like a stalled out project.

It's been stalled for a long time! It took ages for me to get the
engine & trans installed; they sat around for a few years first. And
now it's been another long while since anything was done, but at last
I'm getting those needed suspension parts.

> stock hp on a 3.,3 SVX Subaru engine is 230 hp- 250 I'm sure possible with a
> Link system ..........

Stock 3.3 outside the US is 240hp. With a basic Link there should be
at least an extra 10hp. Still want a supercharger... if I hadn't
screwed-up my finances I'd have been able to buy a NOS Lysholm, but by
the time I came by some more moolah it was of course sold.

> I'd probably just modify vanagon shift linage to work.  Even for a 5 speed.
> I don't think it would be that hard even.
> But I weld and have boxes of oddball what-nots and parts from all kinds of
> cars to work from too. Half the time when I need something for an engine
> coversion thing, I just make it.   Or adapt something.

The throws and rotation are wrong and the reverse position is
different. That's why MSDS insisted that a G50 shifter is necessary.
With a cable the rotation can be tailored by the length of the
actuation arms clamped to the trans shift rod. The throw (axial
movement) might be trickier to set-up.

Whatever, a long shift lever mounted on the floor is going to have a
long throw and will be flexible... not nice.

> 'ran out of money due to mismanagement' ........lol.   Nice way to put it.

Accurate... I had the money to do the whole conversion plus whatever
else I wanted to do to the van, but spent it on other things faster
than I'd thought, and when I checked I found that I'd spent it all!
Add incompetent to the description...

> Get that thing running........THEN keep modifying a running van as time and
> money allow,
> but do whatever you want of course.
> I just love building them up one stage at a time........
> first you get a working engine and trans mounted in the body/chassis.
> then you get clutch and shift linkage working.......
> then you just keep going ...........cooling system, engine management,
> exahaust  system etc.
> and sure, sometimes if you make someting that's not 'the, the best' at
> first............you spend more time in the end re-doing that to the final
> spec, but ..........this is me personally...........but having something
> that runs and needs upgrading and improvements, is more fun and rewarding
> than something that can't even run or move.
> For engine covnersions I always advocate moving as directly as possible to
> having  it running.
> Even that can take a LOT sometimes...............
> whether it's gettting glitches out or whatever.........
> then, after I have something that fundamentally works and runs.......then I
> do special oil pans, modify the suspension, get the AC and tachometer
> working etc.

Ideally this would be so, but the Nazis in New Zealand have decreed
that ALL modifications have to be certified, and each round of
certification costs $250. Hence my desire to go through it only once
and get it all done at the one price!

> learned this a long time ago : "Incompletion drains energy."
> that is, the more that is not done, the behinder you feel, and the more
> discourageing it gets, and the more it seems like it will never get done.
> But when you can turn that key ..........
> I might even run them with no exahsust system, just to confirm that it can
> run........then the next step is real simple.........build the exhsut system
> on.

That's my intention. Run it on the street a little to see how it
works, without exhaust if necessary. Fat little chance of being nabbed
by the highwaymen where I live.

--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
<goose1047@gmail.com>